Fears...

I have been reading this book by Erwin McManus titled "Wide Awake" lately. It has been a great book to read because it is about living out your dreams. As I have been reflecting on this book, I have found myself needing to face some the fears in my life. It is a weird thing how we let our fears control our actions and lives and dreams. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines fear as "an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger," but we see throughout scripture that God only tells us to fear one thing and that is Him (Dt. 6:13, Jos. 24:14, Eccl 12:13, etc.) God is very specific about this, but I think often times we lose sight of what we should and that is trusting that God will get us through the things that are unknown (future things) to us at the present, and I believe it is just a lack of knowing who God is (I am very guilty of this.)

My experience with fears has been a great and awful all at the same time. It's hard to not fear things that we feel we don't have control over. We (humans) are so control driven and if we don't have that it brings on a sense of anxiety, unsecurity, and ultimately fear in what will happen if we don't have control. There is a great example of how nervous people can get if they need to trust something. You know it and probably have seen it before. Someone tells you stand on top of something put your hand crossed across your chest and a group of people behind you tell you to let yourself fall backwards and trust that they will catch you. How often are we not going to cringe a little bit before doing. I know I do. It takes a great deal of trust to do something that involves trusting this group of people. Now, let's think about this. How much more should we trust the creator of this world, the creator of you, the all powerful God that we serve. What a great thing to know that we can trust God and trust that He knows what is best for us and lays out His path for us before we even know it (I don't want to get into an argument about predestination vs. free will with that statement.) Anyways, that's all for now, because work is done and need to leave.

Please reflect on this scripture which speaks about fear, Is. 41:10.